dave's blog of art and programming

  • Similarities and differences

    Couldn’t help noticing this image from a new Adobe product “Package mobile apps in the cloud”: and comparing it to the latest enterprise ready human-plant platform from FoAM: Perhaps we need more toasters?

  • Temporal recursion

    Slub have a number of important livecoding transmissions coming up (including a performance at the Mozilla Festival!) so it’s time to work on fluxus/fluxa/scheme bricks. Here are some recording tests of a feature I’ve been wanting to use for a long time – temporal recursion. These recordings were not changed by hand as they played,…

  • Aniziz on iPad

    Thanks to HTML5 canvas, my first game that works on the iPad. All I had to do was hook up the touch events to call the mouse handlers and it was pretty functional, although the game would be better dealing with touch events differently using more drag-drop approach. The game runs around 20fps compared to…

  • Swamp bike opera impressions…

    Photo thanks to zzkt As the coder for “The swamp that was…” bike opera, my view of things was from “inside” the bikes – listening to the GPS data and playing samples. So it was super (and somewhat surreal) to finally become a rider and take one of the bikes (called Nancy) for a spin…

  • Borrowed Scenery

    I spent last week working on various activities associated with the Electrified festival in Ghent, which included a mix of plant care, games dev, low level android audio hacking, beagleboard-bike fixing. Here are some photos of the Borrowed Scenery installation/physical narrative, home of the mysterious patabotanists and temporary research laboratory for FoAM – excellent for…

  • Execution: a solo exhibition by Martin Howse

    Some images of Martin Howse’ solo exhibition at the Fish Factory (Falmouth’s experimental gallery/reclaimed art space). This exhibition consists of dot matrix printouts, large scale plotter prints, photographs, German VHS cassettes and a mass of technology – and clearly focuses on how it interferes with us physically though our bodies, and in a wider scale…

  • Plasticine architecture

    A patafungi building site for the Aniziz game. The shapes have been inspired by Siteless – an architectural book I absolutely love by François Blanciak. It contains 1000 ideas for building forms inspired by time spent in different cities around the world. This could be a great starting point for all kinds of ideas for…

  • Touchscreen programming

    As more and more people use touchscreens, it still irks me that we lack good ways of programming “on” devices reliant on them (i.e. native feeling – rather than modified text editors). As a result they seem designed entirely around consumption of software (see also the “The coming war on general-purpose computing”). So lets make…

  • Aniziz: Keeping it local and independent

    A large part of the Aniziz project involves porting the Germination X isometric engine from Haxe to Javascript, and trying to make things a bit more consistent and nicer to use as I go. One of the things I’ve tried to learn from experiments with functional reactive programming is using a more declarative style, and…

  • Livenotations gig at Arnolfini – The hair of the horse

    Thanks to Farrows Creative we have some great photos of the livenotations performance with Alex McLean, Hester Reeve and me at the Arnolfini a few weeks ago. This was a completely unrehearsed combination of Hester Reeve’s live art and slub’s live coding. A score was made from rocks and stones, using their position and also…